David Sedaris

I spent my youth well.

Like Hugh's mother, right?

Hugh's mother is 95 now.

And she and her husband got a divorce late in life because he was unfaithful.

But Hugh's mother...

will say, look at that girl there.

Oh, she's just so pretty.

And look at her.

She's got that little skirt on.

Her legs just look so good.

And, of course, her hair and her makeup.

Oh, she's just lovely.

And she's so generous, right?

She never became bitter.

She never felt like, you know, because her husband left her for someone else, she never took that out on her.

Other women, you know, there's a generosity there.

And, you know, if you've spent your youth well, then you think, well, you know, I had my turn to be young and I really took full advantage of it.

I mean, if you hadn't taken advantage of it or if you were miserable when you were young, then I could see how you might get old and then you're just bitter and you're like, it's not fair, you know.

I had a miserable youth and now I'm old and miserable too on top of it.

And I had this wonderful friend named Gretchen Anderson who died, and she was 95, and she died last year.